Meet the Speakers!
We’re thrilled to present our distinguished speakers, each an expert in their field, poised to share their cutting-edge research and insights.
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy
Manuela Piazza
Manuela Piazza is a full professor at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science. She is a member of several relevant scientific societies and committees: Since 2023, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the “Fondation Fyssen” (Paris, FR), the Scientific Council for the “Paris Institut du Cerveau de l’Enfant” (Paris, FR), and the Social & Behavioural Sciences selection panel for the ICREA Academia call 2023 (Barcelona, ES).
Aix-Marseille Université
Katherine Bryant
Katherine Bryant was awarded a 2023 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Adrien Meguerditchian (LPC) and Olivier Coulon (INT). Her project will address the anatomic changes that occur in baboon development from birth to adulthood, with a special focus on lateralization of grey and white matter. The analysis of these data will permit greater insight into the evolution of the substrate of human language. Additionally, her project will apply the same analysis to commonly studied model primate species, in order to create valuable comparative resources for researchers investigating cognitive processes in model species.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Andrea Ravignani
Andrea has a BSc in Mathematics from La Sapienza University of Rome (2007) and master degrees in Mathematics / Economics / Statistics from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010). He completed his PhD in Biology (2014) at the Dept. of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria, supervised by Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch and Prof. Simon Kirby (Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh).
Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante (CSIC-UMH)
Víctor Borrell
Victor Borrell is a CSIC Research Professor at the Institute of Neuroscience in Spain. His team focuses on the mechanisms of brain development that determine its size and cellular complexity, and aims at understanding the evolution of these mechanisms across amniotes leading to the emergence of the human brain, at the cellular and genomic levels. He pioneered the use of unconventional animal models to make groundbreaking and fundamental discoveries in this field.
Braingate
Daniel B. Rubin
Dr. Rubin is a critical care neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rubin cares for patients admitted to the MGH Neurosciences ICU as well as after their ICU admission in the MGH Neurorecovery clinic. He also cares for patients through the MGH Acute Stoke and Telestroke Services.
École Normale Supérieure, Paris | Meta
Jean-Rémi King
Jean-Rémi King, is a CNRS researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and is currently detached to Meta AI, where he leads the Brain & AI team. This team aims to identify the brain and computational bases of human intelligence, with a focus on language. For this, they develop deep learning algorithms to decode and model brain activity recorded with MEG, EEG, electrophysiology, fUS and fMRI.
Neuro & Behavioral Sciences Center of Excellence (Ipsos)
Manuel García-García
Dr. Manuel Garcia-Garcia is a leading authority in the field of Consumer Neuroscience and currently holds the position of Global Lead of Neuroscience at Ipsos. He commands a unique combination of extensive academic credentials and invaluable expertise in consumer insights and cognitive sciences.
Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Alessandro Gozzi
Alessandro Gozzi is a senior scientist and director of the functional neuroimaging laboratory at the Italian Institute of Technology in Rovereto, Italy. The Gozzi lab focuses on the study of the functional organization of the mammalian brain at the macroscale. A major goal of Gozzi’s research is to unravel the neural basis and dynamic organization of large-scale functional connectivity and the underpinnings of its disruption in developmental conditions like autism.
Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante (CSIC-UMH)
Guillermina López-Bendito
Guillermina López-Bendito, CSIC research professor at the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante (CSIC-UMH), has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Alicante. She received her PhD in 2000 at the Institute of Neurosciences. After four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, she returned to the Institute of Neurosciences with a Ramón y Cajal contract from CSIC in 2004. In 2007 she formed her own research group, Development, Plasticity and Regeneration of Thalamocortical Circuits. Guillermina López-Bendito has obtained two prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for high-level research on the European continent.
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